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At a tech conference the day after Marc Andreessen’s manifesto went live, Sam Altman relayed many of the same points but without the bold proclamations that diluted the VC’s argument.

UK intelligence boss will appear alongside ‘Five Eyes’ spy chiefs from the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand at Silicon Valley summit

OpenAI gave its researchers a “huge amount of freedom” rather than tightly controlling them, says Altman, and it paid off.

He was, said George Bernard Shaw, “one of those heroic simpletons who do big things whilst our prominent worldlings are explaining why they are Utopian and impossible”.

Climate activists lined the road to this year’s Burning Man festival in Nevada to call out the “privileged mindset” of the Silicon Valley types who flock there – and the waste involved in creating a temporary city in the desert.

“If they want a new city, San Jose is ripe. Fix what’s there," suggested a Solano County rancher.

Silicon Valley tech tycoons on Thursday announced their intentions of building a new city in Northern California. The billionaire investors have to date spent over $900 million to acquire more than 50,000 acres of land in Solano County. Local and US officials, however, have raised concerns about what one Congressman…

Flannery Associates, the California group behind the $800m effort, launched a website showcasing renderings

Silicon Valley investors behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree got off to a rocky start with the voters they need to build a green new city in Northern California